Re: buildd and experimental

2006-02-28 Thread Brian M. Carlson
No need to Cc, I'm subscribed[0]. On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 23:39 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Brian M. Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:59 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: [gnucash not appearing on buildd.d.o; is this normal?] Yes. You want

dspam in experimental. Please, test.

2006-02-28 Thread Jesus Climent
Hi, you all. For those of you who enjoy to live in the bleeding edge, have loads of free time or just feel like helping a bit, there is a dspam package in experimental waiting for your love. Please, give it a try and if you find a bug, report it. Otherwise, should no showstoppers are found by

Re: Bug#122188: SSH rc?.d/S19 instead of S20, will this bug ever get closed? First submission is 5 years ago!

2006-02-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jeroen Massar] Just bump the priority to S19 this will make it start before the default value of all other daemons, on a more-or-less standard colo box that means waiting for large tools like mailman, mysql, postfix, apache2, makedev etc. Would running the scripts in parallel solve you

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:59:17AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: xen 3.0 is out since the 6th of december! so it has seen considerable amount of production use since. as the xen userspace is tightly integrated to the xen kernel, it makes a lot of sense to release both in the same run. The

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Guido Trotter wrote: Absolutely true! The current xen team is fully agrees on this position! Guido xen 3.0 is out since the 6th of december! so it has seen considerable amount of production use since. as the xen userspace is tightly integrated to the xen kernel, it

Bug#354654: general: fat32 gets corrupted

2006-02-28 Thread Juan Piñeros
Hello Cesare, In machine1 hdparm is not currently installed, but it was 1 year ago when the machine1 had woody installed. I suppose hdparm does not change anything to the disk itself but only to the ide modules of the kernel? In machine2, hdparm is installed, but I do not remember to have

Re: Problems found by piuparts

2006-02-28 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 19:18 +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Note that individual maintainers can already configure dput to stop the upload on lintian/linda errors. Yes, but the point raised was whether it would be better to centralise that. There are a lot of opportunities to run lintian but

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Julien Danjou
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:59:17AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: as the xen userspace is tightly integrated to the xen kernel, it makes a lot of sense to release both in the same run. I hear that the kernel team don't want to maintain userspace tools. the debian kernel team has always been

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:59:17AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Guido Trotter wrote: Absolutely true! The current xen team is fully agrees on this position! xen 3.0 is out since the 6th of december! so it has seen considerable amount of production use since. as the

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Guido Trotter
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:15:39AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: Hi, The current package from pkg-xen is not releasable. Then why don't you just join and commit your fixes before anybody tried to release it? Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Hamish Moffatt said: flashplugin-nonfree itself contains scripts which I presume meet the DFSG. Do you think we should put it in main? I assume this is a troll, and you have not bothered to read any of the other messages in this tediously long thread.

Re: Problems found by piuparts

2006-02-28 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thijs Kinkhorst] Yes, but the point raised was whether it would be better to centralise that. There are a lot of opportunities to run lintian but appearently a lot of packages with errors/warnings are being uploaded. Sometimes lintian tests have bugs / limitations - false positives which

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: The reason this interests me is that this seems to be the key question; it seems to me that if something is *now* not useful for free-software-only systems, it might be better placed in contrib (and the installer fixed, and perhaps not

Bug#354654: general: fat32 gets corrupted

2006-02-28 Thread Juan Piñeros
Hello Jacques, I reply here below: Le Tuesday 28 February 2006 00:56, jacques Normand a écrit : On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:33:19PM +0100, Juan Piñeros wrote: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000d 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 51 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:31:17AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Hamish Moffatt said: flashplugin-nonfree itself contains scripts which I presume meet the DFSG. Do you think we should put it in main? I assume this is a troll, and you have not bothered to read any

Re: buildd and experimental

2006-02-28 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:59:46AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: [0] In case you're unsure, you can check the X-Spam-Status header, which will tell you that I am an LDOSUBSCRIBER, in which case you can assume Just nitpicking: there is no X-Spam-Status: header in my copy; however, there is a

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Hamish Moffatt] flashplugin-nonfree itself contains scripts which I presume meet the DFSG. Do you think we should put it in main? [Stephen Gran] I assume this is a troll Your refusal to answer his question is itself an answer. ndiswrapper is a piece of free software. It does not

Re: buildd and experimental

2006-02-28 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:39:21PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: How do I get the package queued more generally? Is it automatic? Yes. But the experimental buildds don't build from incoming, so you have to wait at least one dinstall run for it to happen. And since you uploaded gnucash

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Hamish Moffatt said: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:31:17AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Hamish Moffatt said: flashplugin-nonfree itself contains scripts which I presume meet the DFSG. Do you think we should put it in main? I assume

Re: dspam in experimental. Please, test.

2006-02-28 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:20:30AM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: For those of you who enjoy to live in the bleeding edge, have loads of free time or just feel like helping a bit, there is a dspam package in experimental waiting for your love. Finally :-) Thank you for packaging it! Please,

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 01:50:16PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Or, perhaps it's not true that there are no free drivers for it. The claim was also made that there was a single free driver out there for use with ndiswrapper, but others claimed that the hardware in question is already

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:23:05PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:48:51PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: The question is not whether there is such a dependency declared; the question is whether the software is useful

Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, I hereby appeal to the technical committee to reject to rule on this request, on the grounds that this is not a technical matter, and therefore falls outside the authority of the technical committee. The question at hand is whether the statement this package is not useful without non-free

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:25:57AM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:15:39AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: The current package from pkg-xen is not releasable. Then why don't you just join and commit your fixes before anybody tried to release it? I can. Bastian --

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:02:34PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:25:57AM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:15:39AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: The current package from pkg-xen is not releasable. Then why don't you just join and commit your

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:45:04PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: If there are no uses of it (actual *uses*, where it is *useful*) with free programs, then it sure seems like a wrapper for non-free programs. You want a useful use case of the NDIS CIPE driver? Allright, I'll give you one.

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-28 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:04:59AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: Taking it out of main moves us in the wrong direction if our goal is to give our users a *usable* operating system, as opposed to some kind of 'proof of concept' OS that some people here seem to want to create, but that the

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 05:21:56PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In any case, the real point here is the following statement from 2.2.2, which says that contrib is for wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free programs.

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Guido Trotter
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:17:45PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Hi, I can. :) Guido, be warned that Bastian often communicates with a few monosylabes and SVN commits :) This doesn't make working with him too problematic usually though :) We've been a bit more chatty, for now, but I

Re: buildd and experimental

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:59:01PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I recently uploaded gnucash 1.9.1 to Debian experimental, but this doesn't seem to have affected buildd.debian.org. Is this normal? That question has already been adequately answered by other people in this thread. However,

Re: buildd and experimental

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:13:34PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: This, however, is a bug, and AAUI one that is in the process of being resolved. [mumble, mumble] No, not Apple Attachment Unit Interface, AIUI: As I Understand It. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, Ashes to Ashes,

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:36:52PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The CIPE driver doesn't actually need hardware, since it is an encryption layer. As such, I can use it as a test-case for ndiswrapper, to find out how the latter works and to actually be able to test whether I set it up

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Wouter! You wrote: The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, or, failing that (since I believe we have no such body), a General Resolution. Wouldn't the ftp-masters be the right authority for

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:25:37PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:36:52PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The CIPE driver doesn't actually need hardware, since it is an encryption layer. As such, I can use it as a test-case for ndiswrapper, to find out how the latter

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Poole
Bas Zoetekouw writes: Hi Wouter! You wrote: The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, or, failing that (since I believe we have no such body), a General Resolution. Wouldn't the

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:45:00AM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: Bas Zoetekouw writes: Hi Wouter! You wrote: The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, or, failing that (since I believe

Re: dspam in experimental. Please, test.

2006-02-28 Thread Florent Bayle
Le Mardi 28 Février 2006 10:20, Jesus Climent a écrit : Hi, you all. For those of you who enjoy to live in the bleeding edge, have loads of free time or just feel like helping a bit, there is a dspam package in experimental waiting for your love. Please, give it a try and if you find a bug,

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Michael! [Cc'ed Manoj, as he's the authority on the constitution...] You wrote: Wouldn't the ftp-masters be the right authority for this issue? It is them who decide if the package can go into main or not. The package is already in main. The person who filed this bug thinks the

4GB address space

2006-02-28 Thread Mad Props
Hi, i'm interested in whether it is possible to modify the Linux kernel so that user applications can use the whole 4GB of virtual address space while the kernel runs it's own AS. If yes, how complicated would that be ?? Thanks, Thomas -- DSL-Aktion wegen großer Nachfrage bis 28.2.2006

Re: ATT Korn Shell

2006-02-28 Thread Josh Hurst
On 2/20/06, Andrew Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:19 +0100, Josh Hurst wrote: Does the Debian ksh93 package include libast and libshell? No - dpkg -L ksh /. /bin /bin/ksh93 /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/shcomp /usr/share /usr/share/man

Re: 4GB address space

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:19:45PM +0100, Mad Props wrote: Hi, i'm interested in whether it is possible to modify the Linux kernel so that user applications can use the whole 4GB of virtual address space while the kernel runs it's own AS. If yes, how complicated would that be ?? Run make

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Guido Trotter
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:29:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Hi, I guess that if people are able to find a kernel source tree outside of debian, they are perfectly capable of downloading and applying a patch too. Just include an URL to wherever such a patch is in the README.Debian of the

Bug#354732: ITP: omgifol -- python library for manipulating doom-style WAD files

2006-02-28 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: omgifol Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Fredrik Johansson * URL : http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~frejohl/doom.html * License : MIT-style Description : python library for

Re: 4GB address space

2006-02-28 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:19:45PM +0100, Mad Props wrote: i'm interested in whether it is possible to modify the Linux kernel so that user applications can use the whole 4GB of virtual address space while the kernel runs it's own AS. Why would you want to do such a thing? If you really need

Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)

2006-02-28 Thread Cord Beermann
Hallo! Du (Amaya) hast geschrieben: Cord Beermann wrote: Also we (the listmasters) don't train the bayes-filter, May I ask why? You may. ;-) I looked into this and found that we automagically train the bayes with the spam we get, but we don't train in the ham. Another thing for the

USB-to-UART converter

2006-02-28 Thread kos
Hi, I am trying to use a USB-to-UART (8 port) converter. I expected it to get recognized and create device names like /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1 ./dev/ttyUSB7. However, this did not happen. [Surprisingly, the single USB-to-UART (1 port) converter works fine and /dev/ttyUSB0 is available for

Re: Re: /lib/modules/kernelversion/volatile on tmpfs

2006-02-28 Thread Sergio Callegari
As far as I know, it should exist in Debian too. For instance, if you look at http://www.phor.net/phpsysinfo-dev/, you'll find an updated log of the system information of an host with Debian/testing. And it has this dir. Same if you look at http://s1cness.is-a-geek.com/phpsysinfo/ It is

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-28 Thread Adam McKenna
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:38:53PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: One point that nobody raised so far: _reliable_ working on ndiswrapper depends on the 16k-stack patch that is not available in Debian AFAIK. Without that patch, drivers requiring ndiswrapper (being free or not) only work by pure

Re: 4GB address space

2006-02-28 Thread Jim Crilly
On 02/28/06 04:19:45PM +0100, Mad Props wrote: Hi, i'm interested in whether it is possible to modify the Linux kernel so that user applications can use the whole 4GB of virtual address space while the kernel runs it's own AS. If yes, how complicated would that be ?? Thanks, Thomas

Re: Re: /lib/modules/kernelversion/volatile on tmpfs

2006-02-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 06:20:47PM +0100, Sergio Callegari wrote: As far as I know, it should exist in Debian too. No, it doesn't. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is there some guideline saying that native packages should be avoided?

2006-02-28 Thread Panu Kalliokoski
Hello, I'm a long-time debian user that aspires to be a DD someday. I recently posted many RFS's on debian-mentors, some of which were software that I'm both the upstream author and packager of. These packages are native Debian packages, i.e. their source distribution is only one .tar.gz. It

Re: Is there some guideline saying that native packages should be avoided?

2006-02-28 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2006-02-28 kello 19:39 +0200, Panu Kalliokoski kirjoitti: I would like to ask whether there really is such a guideline, and if so, which are the technical / political reasons that lead to it. There is a somewhat common feeling among Debian developers that Debian packaging should be separate

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-28 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:46AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:38:53PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: One point that nobody raised so far: _reliable_ working on ndiswrapper depends on the 16k-stack patch that is not available in Debian AFAIK. Without that patch,

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: The reason this interests me is that this seems to be the key question; it seems to me that if something is *now* not useful for free-software-only systems, it might be better placed in contrib

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 01:50:16PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Or, perhaps it's not true that there are no free drivers for it. The claim was also made that there was a single free driver out there for use with ndiswrapper, but others claimed

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's been answered a zillion times already, you just didn't accept the answer as valid. That's okay, but re-asking it again and again isn't going to give you a different answer. My question was not answered. Is ndiswrapper useful on a

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are a few ways to interpret the word wrapper. Ndiswrapper could certainly be seen as a wrapper of sorts, but not in the way that policy means. A wrapper, as used in policy, is a script or small executable that will set up the environment

Re: ATT Korn Shell

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Josh Hurst wrote: On 2/20/06, Andrew Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:19 +0100, Josh Hurst wrote: Does the Debian ksh93 package include libast and libshell? No - [snip] Seems these libraries are statically linked. It may be worth to think about providing shared

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: Look, if the position is that ndiswrapper is, at present, only useful with non-free software, but it should, even so, be in Debian main, I'm prepared to entertain that possibility. But I can't even figure out what you *are* saying, because everytime I ask, people

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at the first packages alphabetically in (main/)admin, one could ask the same question of a great many packages. The aboot* packages assume you have DEC/HP's SRM firmware on your machine. acorn-fdisk assumes that you have the Acorn RISC OS.

Re: Problem regarding modules.dep

2006-02-28 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 14:34 schrieb conn itnel: I am a student and according to my academic project requirement.. I need to cross compile the kernel on P4 (PC HOST) for i386 (TARGET). Now the PC Host and Target contains the same debian 3.1r1 sarge. I successfully crosscompile

Re: ATT Korn Shell

2006-02-28 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Josh Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seems these libraries are statically linked. It may be worth to think about providing shared library versions since there are many applications which can use libshell and libast. For example ATT claims a 30%+ performance improvement for perl applications

Re: gnucash 1.9.1

2006-02-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 27 February 2006 23:51, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I have uploaded gnucash 1.9.1 to the experimental archive today. This is the long-awaited GNOME-2 version of gnucash. Users of gnucash who are willing to use this experimental software are desired. It is not a good idea for every

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tom Rauchenwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not a DD, so maybe my opinion is idiotic. But: the thing is free, it allows people to use non-free drivers, but it is entirerly up to the user to use those drivers. I don't know, but for me this discussion is pointless. Does ndiswrapper require

Re: Is there some guideline saying that native packages should be avoided?

2006-02-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was pointed to me that packages should be preferably non-native, even if no source release without the debian/ subdir has ever existed. I would like to ask whether there really is such a guideline, and if so, which are the technical / political

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:05:16PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, or, failing that (since I believe we have no such body), a General Resolution. You (or

Re: Is there some guideline saying that native packages should be avoided?

2006-02-28 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 21:26 schrieb Henning Makholm: Further, providing an .orig.tar.gz without the debian/ directory helps prevent confusion for users on non-Debian systems. So the same reason for not including a .spec file (for creating RPM packages). On the other side, some user may

Re: gnucash 1.9.1

2006-02-28 Thread Roland Mas
Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2006-02-28 01:00:08 +0100 : Users of gnucash who are willing to use this experimental software are desired. It is not a good idea for every casual user to use it (or I would have put it in unstable), but testing will help the process along. Okay. Built it in a pbuilder

Re: gnucash 1.9.1

2006-02-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you include the SQL bits of gnucach? The package I have uploaded does not support SQL. My intention is to turn that on (I am uncertain yet whether it is worth making it a separate package as it used to be) once 1.9.x has had a time to settle. I

Bug#354654: general: fat32 gets corrupted

2006-02-28 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Juan Piñeros wrote: In machine1 hdparm is not currently installed, but it was 1 year ago when the machine1 had woody installed. I suppose hdparm does not change anything to the disk itself but only to the ide modules of the kernel? Hdparm is a powerful tool that can activate/deactivate some

Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)

2006-02-28 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:03:31AM -0600, Cord Beermann wrote: If you get spam via our lists, BOUNCE[1] it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The advantage of posting it here is that it can be used as a measure of how much spam does posting to a debian mailing attracts, spammers will probably send some

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Thomas Bushnell BSG [Mon, Feb 27 2006, 12:53:12PM]: I certainly do not think that the installer should be limited to software in main (and perhaps not even software in main+contrib, provided it still works correctly without non-free things around). Is that the root issue?

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:06:51AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: However, some people like to define Debian just as main and use the main section as the single acceptable set of free software. Which is, of course, wrong, because requirements for contrib are defined by DFSG, exactly as for main.

Re: 4GB address space

2006-02-28 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:46:07PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: [...] user applications can use the whole 4GB of virtual address space while the kernel runs it's own AS. [...] Run make menuconfig; then, select Processor type and features, and High Memory Support. Done. The question was

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:59:17AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: snipp as the xen userspace is tightly integrated to the xen kernel, it makes a lot of sense to release both in the same run. But it doesn't make sense to release them both as

Re: buildd and experimental

2006-02-28 Thread Brian M. Carlson
[Please followup to -project; I am subscribed there, too, so you should *not* Cc me.] On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:13 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:59:46AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: [0] In case you're unsure, you can check the X-Spam-Status header, which will tell

Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)

2006-02-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:47:41 +0100]: Is it OK if we, mutt users, use this? Why not '[EMAIL PROTECTED]enter'? ('b' does (B)ounce in the default keybindings). THat's what Cord asked for... -- Adeodato Simó dato at

Re: /lib/modules/kernelversion/volatile on tmpfs

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Smith
Sergio Callegari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have this directory on an Ubuntu system and it seems to be present on recent Debian systems too... It is on tmpfs. Can anybody tell me what is its purpose (as many other distros don't have it) and when it gets

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:05:16PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I hereby appeal to the technical committee to reject to rule on this request, on the grounds that this is not a technical matter, and therefore falls outside the authority of the technical committee. The Section: field of a

Re: buildd and experimental

2006-02-28 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:04:17AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: I understand that different mail systems do different things (although I hope you're not using qmail[0]). Not on my desktop, but I have no control over the institute's central services. However, the code of conduct seems to

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:52:49PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:05:16PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, or, failing that

Re: Mirror split, amd64 update

2006-02-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Julien BLACHE wrote: Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody blindly mirroring ALL of ftp.debian.org via http or ftp would end up with two copies of the major architectures. However, doing that is a stupid thing anyway, and Debian has no obligation to protect

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian

2006-02-28 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I take issue with this because we [the xen team] have never excluded anyone and have tried to get all those people interested in solid Debian packages of xen to come forth and help. I spent a good amount of time before actually forming the Alioth project attempting to get in touch with

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: The Section: field of a Debian package's control file is a technical detail of the package, as is the location of a package on the Debian mirror. You may consider that a particular decision has political motivations, but this may be true of many

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:03:56AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: They can consider it, obviously. They cannot overrule ftp-masters on this matter, however. OTOH, ftp-masters may decide to listen to whatever the ctte recommends, but they don't *have* to. They can consider it

Re: buildd and experimental

2006-02-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:46:02AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:04:17AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: However, the code of conduct seems to point out that one should not Cc someone unless they specifically ask for it (a guideline that you neglected to follow, after

Re: Is there some guideline saying that native packages should be avoided?

2006-02-28 Thread Christian Perrier
I would like to ask whether there really is such a guideline, and if so, which are the technical / political reasons that lead to it. I have Wearing my i18n hat, I can add one reason, certainly not THE reason but yet another argument to avoid native packages except for Debian-specific stuff

Re: Is there some guideline saying that native packages should be avoided?

2006-02-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 21:26 schrieb Henning Makholm: Further, providing an .orig.tar.gz without the debian/ directory helps prevent confusion for users on non-Debian systems. On the other side, some user may find it very useful. Then the

Accepted riece 2.0.2-1 (source all)

2006-02-28 Thread OHASHI Akira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:54:58 +0900 Source: riece Binary: riece Architecture: source all Version: 2.0.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: OHASHI Akira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: OHASHI Akira [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted pyx 0.8.1-2 (source i386 all)

2006-02-28 Thread Graham Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:46:25 + Source: pyx Binary: python-pyx python-pyx-doc Architecture: source i386 all Version: 0.8.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Graham Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Graham Wilson

Accepted nut 2.0.3-3 (source i386)

2006-02-28 Thread Arnaud Quette
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:35:32 +0100 Source: nut Binary: nut nut-usb nut-dev nut-snmp nut-cgi Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.0.3-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Arnaud Quette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Arnaud

Accepted synaptic 0.57.8 (source i386)

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Vogt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:44:42 +0100 Source: synaptic Binary: synaptic Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.57.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted libdbix-class-loader-perl 0.21-1 (source all)

2006-02-28 Thread eloy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:18:00 +0100 Source: libdbix-class-loader-perl Binary: libdbix-class-loader-perl Architecture: source all Version: 0.21-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Catalyst Maintainers [EMAIL

Accepted baobab 2.3.2-1 (source i386)

2006-02-28 Thread Fabio Marzocca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:30:15 +0100 Source: baobab Binary: baobab Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.3.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Fabio Marzocca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Fabio Marzocca [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted dbus 0.61-2 (source all powerpc)

2006-02-28 Thread Sjoerd Simons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:58:05 +0100 Source: dbus Binary: libdbus-1-cil libdbus-glib-1-dev dbus-1-utils libdbus-qt4-1-dev python2.4-dbus libdbus-qt-1-1c2 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdbus-1-2 monodoc-dbus-1-manual dbus-1-doc dbus libdbus-1-dev

Accepted gossip 0.10.1-1 (source i386)

2006-02-28 Thread Ross Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:12:20 + Source: gossip Binary: gossip Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.10.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted at76c503a 0.12.beta23-5 (source all)

2006-02-28 Thread Guido Guenther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:44:48 +0100 Source: at76c503a Binary: at76c503a-source Architecture: source all Version: 0.12.beta23-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Guido Guenther

Accepted galeon 2.0.1-1 (source i386 all)

2006-02-28 Thread Loic Minier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:28:31 +0100 Source: galeon Binary: galeon galeon-common Architecture: source i386 all Version: 2.0.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Loic Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Loic Minier [EMAIL

Accepted minimalist 2.5.3-1 (source all)

2006-02-28 Thread Christoph Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:19:22 +0100 Source: minimalist Binary: minimalist Architecture: source all Version: 2.5.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Christoph Berg [EMAIL

Accepted dhcdbd 1.12-1 (source powerpc)

2006-02-28 Thread Riccardo Setti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:37:52 +0100 Source: dhcdbd Binary: dhcdbd Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1.12-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Riccardo Setti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Riccardo Setti [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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